Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost overnight, with stunning suddenness, a popular intellectual cause has become an unpopular one. Its proponents are being subjected to attacks, insults, and threats that would have seemed fantastic only a few months ago. But on an issue as important as this one it is not right to retreat, or to keep quiet, for silence gives assent, and assent may mean ruin...
Frankly, we need help from our elders. We have faith that they are willing and able to take up, with us this unpopular cause and fight for it until we win. College professors are not sheep. Many, too many, have taken the easy road of silence, but we are sure that when they awaken to the urgency of the issue before us, their leadership will again count as heavily as it has in the past...
...muddled idealism can muster. Among other things the opposition will not hesitate to impute your actions to unpatriotic motives. But such a struggle as yours, properly conceived, means infinitely more than the easy gestures which your opponents are so eager to provide. Yours will be a course even more unpopular in the months to come than it is new, a course in which you must prepare to act as sufferers who will probably fail to convert any of the opposition. I know, however, that you can count on the support of some of your elders. And I know that when...
...Dealers drew some comfort from the defeat of pompous, unpopular anti-New Deal Senator Edward Burke by popular Governor Roy L. Cochran in the Democratic primary. Burke had antagonized the farmers by voting against parity payments; Labor, by attacking NLRB; Czechs and Poles, by lauding Hitler; Germans, by voting for repeal of the arms embargo. The Republicans had turned down a New Dealer within their own ranks, Arthur J. Weaver, in favor of Grainman Hugh Butler of Omaha, who probably won because he spent enough money to get a professional organization. The Republicans confidently expected to beat Governor Cochran with...
...Iceland are taken out of the hands of the Danish Foreign Office. Iceland refused to join the League of Nations, chiefly because Denmark was a member, but there are no really hard feelings between Copenhagen and Reykjavik. Icelanders say handsomely of King Christian that His Majesty is "less unpopular in Iceland than any other Danish sovereign has ever been...